pleasure principle
Example Sentences
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The pastry chef Grayson Claes, who comes to Sona from Eleven Madison Park, has a keen sense of how to complicate a dessert without losing the pleasure principle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2021
The excessive, destabilising bit of the pleasure principle that’s channelling the death drive.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2019
When it comes to eating, I believe in Freud’s pleasure principle: I avoid all pain.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2019
Strangely, the film’s modest dramatic virtues work actively against the pleasure principle and diminish the film’s strongest elements.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2015
The transition from the pleasure principle to that of fact is the most important advance in the development of the ego.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
